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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (12 Feb 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I have eight other people who wish to speak.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (12 Feb 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: There are nine other members who want to speak.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (12 Feb 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I will take the following three speakers in the order they indicated to me – Senator Colm Burke, Deputy Regina Doherty and Deputy Peter Fitzpatrick. Senator Burke has three minutes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (12 Feb 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: It was question No. 23.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (12 Feb 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: The last speaker listed is Deputy Dowds.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (12 Feb 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I will hand back to the Minister of State and the officials. Deputies McLellan, Byrne and Moloney are next, and then Senator Thomas Byrne.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (12 Feb 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: To be fair, it is not only an issue for the Department of Health.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (12 Feb 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I should point out that in the coming weeks the committee will undertake work on the cost of drugs and hi-tech medicines.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (12 Feb 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: To be fair, it is not only Mr. Hennessy who needs to give a response. Mr. Breslin also needs to respond.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (12 Feb 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Is it not fundamentally wrong that a group of people, no matter what the issue, have to take to the airwaves to highlight the fact that they are deprived of something after a clinical decision has been taken to prescribe or recommend a particular product?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (12 Feb 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I will take the answer to that in the next batch of replies, because some people have been waiting all morning to speak.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (12 Feb 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I welcome the Minister for Health, Deputy Varadkar, and thank him for making a super effort to be here. We appreciate that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (12 Feb 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I remind Deputies that on 10 March we are holding pre-legislative scrutiny hearings on that Bill.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (12 Feb 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: The Senator is over time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (12 Feb 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: The Senator must stick to the schedule.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (12 Feb 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: The Chairman is fair to everybody. I will let the Senator finish on this point because he feels victimised, but the Chair is fair to everybody, in fairness.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (12 Feb 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: For the record, non-spokespeople had an average of three minutes to speak while Senator Crown got six. He can pick his stilts through the timekeeping on that one. I welcome Senator Thomas Byrne who is joining us in place of Senator Marc MacSharry. While he has not formally joined us, he is very welcome to the committee. We look forward to working with him.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (12 Feb 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: To be fair to Mr. O'Brien, he said in his presentation that he was not aiming his remarks there. He said that the adjectives he used were aimed at the drugs companies.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (12 Feb 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: There is significant interference with the Minister's microphone.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (12 Feb 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Does the Minister have a pacemaker?